again we are getting word according to the associated press that 10,000 workers that settled their lawsuit again the city related to -d dust at ground zero. the official republican candidate in alaska s race is trying to prevent them from ratifying the race. lisa murkowski declared winning the race on wednesday. president obama is facing growing skepticism over his strategy, meeting with nato and european leaders in portugal the president is shouldering tough questions from critics over the exit strategy in afghanistan and also stimulus spending. afghanistan is expected to be a big issue on the agenda as those nato leaders meet in portugal, particularly nato s relationship with afghan president hamid karzai. the pentagon is saying that the administration hopes afghans can
v8. what s your number? the u.s. is plotting its way out of afghanistan according to a new report that the u.s. and nato officials have mapped out a plan that ends the combat mission in afghanistan by 2014. that plan reiterates president obama s desire to begin withdrawing troops as early as next july. so is this a feasible exit strategy since our troops are just not are just getting there now? with us right now is former white house advisor to iraq and
political reasons. they have been quietly backing away from it and they will back away further at the nato summit where they will move to the 2014 date. i think they will try to draw down a little bit in the summer of 2011 but what rob gates said is we are taking the war to the taliban and doing a lot of damage. taking casualties ourselves unfortunately but we have a strategy to stuc succeed, not a strategy to exit. barack obama is not interested in an exit strategy, he is interested in a success strategy. chris: the white house tried to play down the shift saying no, no, we still plan to begin the drawdown in july of 2011 as the president said in his west point speech but they acknowledge that now it will be a gradual drawdown and we are there at least to 2014 before we turn things over to the afghans. how big a deal do you think that is? a big deal in this sense.
they have been quietly backing away from it and will back further at the summit next week and will move to the 2014 date. and, what it meaps, i think he ll try and draw down, in the summer of 2011 but what bob gates said is we re taking the war to the taliban and doing a lot of damage and taking casualties ourselves, unfortunately but we have a strategy now, under general petraeus to succeed, not to exit and barack obama has crossed the bridge and is not interested in exit strategy, during the first term from afghanistan, he s interested in success strategy. chris: juan the white house tried to play down the shift, saying we still plan to begin the draw down, in july 2011 as the president said in the west point speech but acknowledge now it will be a gradual draw down and we are there at least to 2014 before we turn things over to the afghans. how big a deal is that. a big deal, in the the way the white house would portray
allowed to buy u.s. treasuries and debt and they did it in the 1930s a4-0s and it is not the massive intervention we are seeing now, is the federal reserve pushing the envelope? that is key and what will happen and what is this fed s exit strategy, will the dollar drop? you see the dollar is sliding, and will it cause inflation and undo the federal deficit spending for stimulus the congress wanted to spur the economy forward and what is the fed s exit strategy out of this? they have to sell treasuries to remove the liquidity out of the system and that means, a bond glut and yields would have to spike higher, because, you have to attract more investors into those bonds and into those treasuries, with higher yields, if there is a finite pool of investors to buy them and, so, also the issue is, what is behind the hiring strike in this country, martha? and businesses we have talked to, and i have talked to fed historians and economists and they say, routinely, they don t know what is in he